Recommended Weapons

Which Warframe and weapons to use?

In order to use the better weapons from the market and dojo you will need to level up your mastery rank. This is done by levelling up your equips. Since every equip has its own strengths and weaknesses its best to try as many as you can till you find the best one for you. 

The current starting weapons you have equipped are pretty weak. In fact I suggest getting the Braton as soon as you can buy it from the market (25k credits) and ditch leveling the mk1 till later (I hate that gun!) 

The lato is okay and when maxed you could get the aklato and then start to build either a hikou or kunai. 

After defeating the first boss on Mercury you will receive a blueprint for a Cronus. You should have the resources to build it straight away and it is a straight upgrade from the Skana with more damage and attack speed.

However in order to level your mastery rank it is best to max out your weapons, so I would keep using the lato and skana till they are maxed since they were okay.

For a full list of weapons please refer to the wiki or alternatively look at the codex ingame:

Weapons: http://warframe.wikia.com/wiki/Weapons

Recommended Warframe:

At the moment there are 15 different warframes. Each warframe has its own unique skills and playstyles.. Please go to the wiki to research more on their stats and abilities as well as where their blueprints drop. Banshee blueprints will drop randomly as you play the game so keep your eye out. The rest are mainly boss drops.

Warframes: http://warframe.wikia.com/wiki/Warframes

In general:
Tanks: Rhino, Frost
Stealth: Ash, Banshee, Loki
Glass cannon Dps: Ember, Mag, Nova
Crowd control: Nekros, Nyx, Vauban

Support: Trinity, Volt
Saryn being a poison type with good armour (Tanky dps?)
Excalibur being all rounder (Couldn't decide).

Of course the above is just a generalisation of their roles and all have damage skills and utility to some extent. Since you have to level up your mastery try as many as you can!
You may have noticed prime warframes and weapons. To get these you will need to enter the void with the tower keys and farm those missions (wait till you get your gear ready).

Recommended weapons to build:

Primary:

Boltor - since it ignores armor. Make sure to put in a speed trigger as the bolts fly slowly and you need to get used to the projectiles. Also the accuracy is poor at long range.

Latron - has good damage but a slow fire rate so make sure to have an aoe melee weapon or fast secondary if you get crowded. Its pretty good at any range but it is semi automatic. (I redefined my keys so that scrolling the mouse wheel fires instead of clicking... much easier firing pistols and semi automatics now)

Flux and Synapse are considered the best primaries at the moment but you will need to level your mastery quite a bit to get them.

Secondary:

Hikou or Kunai are great secondaries but are projectile type. Afuris is good due to its high firerate but is inaccurate at long range.

Melee:

Although the Cronus is very good, like all longswords it only hits one enemy at a time.

Dual blades and heavy weapons can hit more than one enemy so I would recommend these.

Dual ethers for normal attacks as they have good attack speed and stagger enemies. As of update 11 these no longer stagger on every hit hence they are no longer recommended.

Dual heat swords are good for charged attacks but they don't stagger with a jump attack. Instead a jump attack will cause a small aoe attack burning nearby enemies.

Galatine(mastery  level 3) and Orthos(mastery level 2) are the best for Charged attacks.

Keep in mind that all weapons have their strengths and weaknesses and it really is down to you. Once fully modded most weapons will perform well.

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